Give no decision till both sides thou'st heard.

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Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976. After the company's board of...

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

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The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

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Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

—Robert Fritz

When yu' can't have why you choose, yu' just choose what you have.

—Publilius Syrus

When you don't know what to do, get still. Get very still until you do know what to do.

If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That's the lesson. That lesson alone, will save you a lot of grief. Even doubt means don't.

—Oprah Winfrey

Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself

—Oprah Winfrey

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